3x12a "Money for Nothin' and Your Tix for Free"

Contest time!  We’ve partnered with Fathom Events and CBS Home Entertainment to give away five pairs of tickets to The Twilight Zone: A 60^th Anniversary Celebration, which will screen in more than 600 movie theaters across the U.S., on November 14^th, 2019. Along with a new short documentary about Rod Serling, they’ll be showing 6 quintessential episodes (“Walking Distance,” “Time Enough at Last,” “The Invaders,” “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street,” “Eye of the Beholder,” and “To Serve Man”). Wanna go? FOR FREE? Well, of course you do! And you can…. but you have to enter.

Event details: https://www.fathomevents.com/twilightzone

Contest details: Email us at zonepod@gmail.com with the following: your name, the two participating theaters closest to you (find out at https://www.fathomevents.com/twilightzone), and your favorite of the six episodes being screened at the event. Deadline is midnight, Pacific Standard Time, on Sunday, November 3^rd, 2019.

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Between Light and Shadow: A Twilight Zone Podcast is a nonprofit podcast. Music clips and dialogue excerpts used herein are the property of their respective copyright owners; we claim no ownership of these materials. Their use is strictly for illustrative purposes and should be considered Fair Use as stated in the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. section 107.

2x07 "Mob's Yer Uncle"

Neighbors, am I right? Buncha a-holes. This week the classic Twilight Zone episode “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” faces off against the not-quite-as-classic “The Shelter” in a suburban grudge match for the ages. Along the way Craig unwraps a mint copy of Twilight Zone Magazine (for research purposes) and discovers that every good idea he has for the podcast… well, Tom Elliot had it first.

Tom Elliot’s coverage of “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street”:

http://thetwilightzonepodcast.com/the-monsters-are-due-on-maple-street-2/

Tom Elliot’s coverage of “The Shelter”:

http://thetwilightzonepodcast.com/the-shelter/

Forbidden Planet uniform replicas:

http://www.fabgearusa.com/forbidden-planet/

Opening theme: “Neither Here nor There (3.3)” by Twin Loops

“Pretty in Pink” by The Psychedelic Furs (from the Pretty in Pink soundtrack, copyright 1986 by A&M Records)

“Chant of the Moon” by Robert Drasnin (from the album Voodoo: Exotic Music from Polynesia and the Far East, copyright 1959 by Tops Records)

“Monster Radio Man” by Skinny Puppy (from the album Back and Forth Series Vol. 2, copyright 1992 by Nettwerk)

The Twilight Zone is a trademark of CBS, Inc.

Between Light and a Shadow: A Twilight Zone Podcast is a nonprofit podcast. Music clips and dialogue excerpts used herein are the property of their respective copyright owners; we claim no ownership of these materials. Their use is strictly for illustrative purposes and should be considered Fair Use as stated in the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. section 107.

TZ Promo: "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" (3/04/1960)

Fifty years ago tonight, Twilight Zone viewers got a look at an angry, ugly mob. They weren't medeivel townspeople chasing a Frankenstein-like creature through the forest. They weren't Gold Rush-era prospectors trying to beat one another to a new claim. They weren't even ecstatic teenagers racing to get a first look at The Beatles.

These were normal, everyday people, denizens of a normal, everyday neighborhood. Lawns were being mowed. Kids were playing. A typical summer Saturday in Anytown, USA. And then....

It's The Twilight Zone. There's always an "And then....," isn't there?

Rod Serling crafts a gripping tale illustrating just how off-kilter things can get when something unexplainable gives rise to fear and paranoia. The cast is pitch-perfect, particularly the trio of male leads: Claude Akins as the by-default voice of reason, Barry Atwater is the unfortunate neighbor who falls under suspicion (and who reacts defensively enough to make him seem... well, suspicious), and Jack Weston as the loud-mouthed, obnoxious goon (doesn't every neighborhood have one?). As directed by Ron Winston and shot by George T. Clemens, Maple Street starts as an idyllic environment and devolves into utter, brutal chaos.

"The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" also marks the second appearance of the flying saucer from Forbidden Planet. Get used to it, folks. We're gonna see it again and again as the series progresses. This time, the footage was shown upside-down and in reverse. Like we wouldn't notice.

Next up: Another of my Top 40 favorites. Like last week's "Mirror Image," we'll be challenged again on the subject of identity. Who are we, really? Arthur Curtis thinks he's a normal businessman on his way out the door for a vacation with his wife. A voice yells "Cut!" Suddenly, all bets are off. Do check it out.